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Posted: 2021-01-06T13:48:31Z | Updated: 2021-01-06T16:32:08Z

Supporters of President Donald Trump heckled and harassed Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) with repeated shouts of traitor on board a flight from Salt Lake City to Washington on Tuesday.

In videos circulating on Twitter, the small group of pro-Trump passengers hollered out conspiracy theories, demanded Romney resign and accused him of failing to listen to his constituents, multiple media outlets reported.

Mitt Romney, in a flight full of patriots in their way to DC pic.twitter.com/t9uq3vkCo5

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Mitt Romney, in a flight full of patriots in their way to DC pic.twitter.com/t9uq3vkCo5

Non timebo mala (@AncPerl) January 5, 2021

Other videos shared on social media showed Trump supporters accosting Romney before the flight from Salt Lake City International Airport for not supporting the presidents futile efforts to overturn the 2020 election result.

I do support President Trump in things I agree with, Romney calmly explained to one woman, after asking her to put on a face mask. She told Romney not to tell me what to do, but then complied with his request.

When the woman asked Romney if he would support Trumps false claims about fraudulent votes, he responded: No, Im not ... We have a Constitution and the constitutional process is clear and I will follow the Constitution. And then I will explain all that when we meet in Congress.

Romney, who did not vote for Trump in the election and was the only Senate Republican to vote to convict the president in his impeachment trial last year, later rose from his seat in an airport waiting area and walked away as a man told him that Trump is a juggernaut, said the senators legacy is nothing and the woman shouted that Romney was an absolute joke.

Utah Patriots catch Rino Romney at Salt Lake City international airport! He thinks hes above his constituents!!! Openly bashing @realDonaldTrump!!!

These people wont be able to walk down the street.

VOLUME UP! pic.twitter.com/Lntgozkajx

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Utah Patriots catch Rino Romney at Salt Lake City international airport! He thinks hes above his constituents!!! Openly bashing @realDonaldTrump !!!

These people wont be able to walk down the street.

VOLUME UP! pic.twitter.com/Lntgozkajx

Qtah (@Utah_17) January 6, 2021

Romney shrugged off the harassment on Wednesday.

Thats something Ive gotten used to over the years. Thats the nature of politics, unfortunately, he told HuffPost.

The confrontations occurred the day before Congress is set to certify President-elect Joe Biden s victory and Trump supporters assembled for a so-called Stop the Steal rally in Washington.

Romney on Sunday responded to Republican efforts to oppose the certification of the Electoral College votes with a statement decrying it as an egregious ploy that dangerously threatens our Democratic Republic.

The congressional power to reject electors is reserved for the most extreme and unusual circumstances. These are far from it, the senator wrote. More Americans participated in this election than ever before, and they made their choice.

I could never have imagined seeing these things in the greatest democracy in the world. Has ambition so eclipsed principle? Romney concluded.

Igor Bobic contributed reporting.